Awesome List Updates on Dec 04, 2016
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1. Awesome4girls
Events/Meetups / Clojure
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ClojureBridge aims to increase diversity within the Clojure community by offering free, beginner-friendly Clojure programming workshops for women.
Events/Meetups / Python
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An international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community.
Initiatives/Programs / Academy/Camp
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Chicas Poderosas is a community working to bring Latina women in the Americas into the forefront of digital journalism. Through events, meetups and mentoring, Chicas aims to engage more women in developing news applications, producing interactive content, and integrating new tools into their newsrooms.
Girl Develop It - Loc:
Girl Develop It is a nonprofit organization that provides affordable programs for adult women interested in learning web and software development in a judgment-free environment.
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We are a national nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in the technology and engineering sectors.The Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program is a 7-week intensive computer science course that embeds classrooms in technology companies and universities.
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Hackbright Academy is the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco in 2012. The academy graduates more female engineers than Stanford and UC Berkeley each year.
Initiatives/Programs / Conferences/Talks
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is the world's largest gathering of women technologists. It is produced by the Anita Borg Institute and presented in partnership with ACM.
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Lesbians Who Tech is a Community of Queer Women in or around tech (and the people who love them).
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The unConference for women geeks of all kinds to share, connect, network, learn, inspire and have lots of fun.
WECode - Loc:
WECode is "the largest student-run Women in Computer Science conference, held at Harvard University each February. Our mission is to expand the skills, network, and community of technical women worldwide. We bring together women over the course of two amazing days to share ideas and conversations on technology and innovation." Live at https://live.cs50.net/wecode on February 27 and February 28.
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WITI is the premier global organization helping tech-savvy women attain their professional goals. WITI organizes events and summits for women.
Other Initiatives / Awards
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Honor. Celebrate. Inspire. We believe that open source is the future of technology—and that it's time to recognize the contributions women are making.
Other Initiatives / Content
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IGNITE features stories of women and girls who are leading and innovating in science, technology, engineering and math. The project also highlights the gender gap in technology and advocates for women and girls’ increased access to and control of technologies.
Other Initiatives / Documentaries/Movies
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Documentary about girls who code and develop app ideas for the Technovation Challenge address issues in their community and try to solve problems through the use of technology.
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Meet five young women determined to pursue their start-up dreams. She Started It is a documentary by Nora Poggi and Insiyah Saeed following Stacey Ferreira, Thuy Truong, Brienne Ghafourifar, Sheena Allen and Agathe Molinar over the course of 2+ years, illuminating the ups and downs these entrepreneurs face in building new businesses.
2. Awesome Crystal
Database Drivers/Clients
- rocksdb.cr (⭐38) - RocksDB client
3. Awesome Ctf
Reversing
- Plasma (⭐3k) - An interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS which can generate indented pseudo-code with colored syntax.
4. Citizen Science
Other Resources / Other Types of Support
- The Powercube - Some literature and workshops by community organizers for understanding power and mobilizing.
5. Awesome Talks
Software Design
- Unleash Your Domain by Greg Young (Øredev 2010) [45:20]
- 8 Lines of Code by Greg Young (QCon 2013) [54:43]
6. Vertx Awesome
Dependency Injection
- Vert.x Spring Verticle Factory (⭐7) - A Vert.x Verticle Factory that makes use of Spring to obtain and configure Verticles.
7. Awesome Aws
Appendix of Core Services / Compute Services
- Auto Scaling - Launches or terminates EC2 instances based on policies, schedules, and health checks.
- Batch - Run batch jobs at scale.
- Blox - Open source projects for building custom schedulers on ECS.
- EC2 Container Service (ECS) - Supports Docker containers on EC2 instances.
- EC2 Systems Manager - Easily configure and manage EC2 and on-premises systems.
- Elastic Beanstalk - Provides quick deployment and management of applications in the cloud.
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - Provides scalable virtual private servers using Xen.
- Lambda - Runs code in response to events and automatically manages EC2 instances.
Appendix of Core Services / Networking Services
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) - Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Creates a logically isolated set of EC2 instances which can be connected to an existing network using a VPN connection.
- Direct Connect - Provides dedicated connections to AWS for faster and cheaper data throughput.
- Route 53 - Provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
Appendix of Core Services / Enterprise Applications
- WorkDocs - Provides a fully managed, secure enterprise storage and sharing service.
- WorkMail - Provides managed email and calendaring service.
- WorkSpaces - Provides a cloud-based desktop experience to end-users.
- Workspaces Application Manager (WAM) - Simplifies deployment and management of WorkSpaces.
Appendix of Core Services / Analytics Services
- Data Pipeline - Provides workload management by processing and moving data between services.
- Elastic MapReduce (EMR) - Hosts a Hadoop and Spark framework running on EC2 and S3.
- Elasticsearch Service (ES) - Managed Elasticsearch, a popular open-source search and analytics engine.
- Glue - Prepare and load data to data stores.
- Kinesis - Provides real-time data processing over large, distributed data streams.
- Kinesis Analytics - Write standard SQL queries on streaming data without having to learn any new programming skills.
- Kinesis Firehose - Captures and automatically loads streaming data into S3 and Redshift.
- Quicksight - Provides cloud-powered business intelligence for 1/10th the cost of traditional BI solutions.
Appendix of Core Services / Databases
- Redshift - Provides petabyte-scale data warehousing with columnar storage and multi-node compute.
- Aurora - MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database with improved performance.
- DynamoDB - Provides a scalable, low-latency NoSQL online Database Service backed by SSDs.
- ElastiCache - Provides in-memory caching for web apps (Memcached, Redis).
- Relational Database Service (RDS) - Provides a scalable database server with MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB support.
- Schema Conversion Tool - App that helps you convert your database schema from an Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database, to an RDS MySQL DB instance or an Aurora DB cluster.
- SimpleDB - Allows developers to run queries on structured data.
Appendix of Core Services / Management Tools
- CloudFormation - Provides a file-based interface for provisioning other resources.
- CloudTrail - Provides logs of all activity.
- CloudWatch - Provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications, starting with EC2.
- Config - Provides a detailed view of all resources.
- Management Console (AWS Console) - A web-based interface to manage all services.
- OpsWorks - Provides configuration of EC2 services using Chef.
- Service Catalog - Service Catalog allows IT administrators to create, manage, and distribute portfolios of approved products to end users, who can then access the products they need in a personalized portal.
Appendix of Core Services / Developer Tools
- Command Line Interface (CLI) - Provides a CLI to manage all services.
- CodeCommit - Hosted Git version control service.
- CodeDeploy - Provides automated code deployment to EC2 instances.
- CodePipeline - Continuous delivery service.
- X-Ray - Analyze and debug your applications.
Appendix of Core Services / Security and Identity Services
- Certificate Manager - Lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services.
- CloudHSM - Helps meet corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.
- Directory Service - A managed service that allows you to connect your resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory or to set up a new, stand-alone directory in the AWS Cloud.
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) - An implicit service, the authentication infrastructure used to authenticate access to the various services.
- Inspector - An automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.
- Key Management Service (KMS) - A managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data.
- WAF - A web application firewall service that monitors and manages CloudFront distributions.
Appendix of Core Services / Internet of Things Service
- IoT - Enables secure, bi-directional communication between internet-connected things (such as sensors, actuators, embedded devices, or smart appliances) and the AWS cloud over MQTT and HTTP.
Appendix of Core Services / Application Services
- API Gateway - Service for publishing, maintaining and securing web service APIs.
- Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Provides a hosted multi-protocol "push" messaging for applications.
- AppStream - Flexible, low-latency streaming service for apps and games.
- CloudSearch - Provides basic full-text search and indexing of textual content.
- DevPay - Provides billing and account management.
- Elastic Transcoder (ETS) - Provides video transcoding of S3 hosted videos.
- Flexible Payments Service (FPS) - Provides an interface for micropayments.
- Simple Email Service (SES) - Provides bulk and transactional email sending.
- Simple Queue Service (SQS) - Provides a hosted message queue for web applications.
- Simple Workflow (SWF) - A workflow service for building scalable, resilient applications.
- Step Functions - Coordinate components of distributed applications.
Appendix of Core Services / Mobile Services
- Cognito - Provides user identity and data synchronization.
- Device Farm - App testing service for iOS, Android and Fire OS apps on physical devices.
- Mobile Analytics - Service for collecting, visualizing, and understanding app usage data.
- Mobile Hub - Provides an integrated console that helps you build, test, and monitor your mobile apps.
Appendix of Core Services / Storage and Content Delivery Services
- CloudFront - A content delivery network (CDN) for distributing objects to locations near the requester.
- Elastic Block Store (EBS) - Provides persistent block-level storage volumes for EC2.
- Elastic File System (EFS) - A file storage service for EC2 instances.
- Glacier - Provides a low-cost, long-term storage option, intended for archiving data.
- Import/Export - Accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport.
- Simple Storage Service (S3) - Provides Web Service based storage.
- Storage Gateway - An iSCSI block storage virtual appliance with cloud-based backup.
Appendix of Core Services / Miscellaneous Services
- Fulfillment Web Service - Provides a programmatic web service for sellers to ship items to and from Amazon using Fulfillment by Amazon.
- Mechanical Turk - Manages small units of work distributed among many persons.
- Partner Network (APN) - Provides partners with the technical information and sales and marketing support to increase business opportunities.
- Product Advertising API - Provides access to product data and electronic commerce functionality.
8. Free Programming Books (English, By Programming Language)
Go / Phoenix
Linux / TeX
- Ten Steps to Linux Survival: Bash for Windows People - Jim Lehmer
Python / Constraint Logic Programming (extended Prolog)
- SICP in Python (3.2)
Python / Pandas
- Learn Pandas - Hernan Rojas (0.18.1)
Python / Tornado
R / Tornado
- Cookbook for R - Winston Chang
- R for Spatial Analysis (PDF)
- R Language for Programmers - John D. Cook
- R Practicals (PDF)
- The caret Package - Max Kuhn
Ruby / Ruby on Rails
9. Awesome Vorpal
Projects
- launch (⭐26) - Automating meteor builds to the AppStore, TestFlight, Hockey, Google Play, and more
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